Friday links March 21st 2025

Some links for technical articles on various topics I read.

NVIDIA emulation journey, part 1: RIVA 128 / NV3 architecture history and basic overview - From the developers of 86Box emulators, some history and technical summary about the first successful 3D GPU from Nvidia.

zlib-rs is faster than C - Something on the reimplementation of zlib in Rust, and how it performs better. Safe + speed, pick 2.

Understanding ActivityPub Part 1 to 4. - A four part explainer on how ActivityPub, the protocol behind the Fediverse, works.

Memory safety for web fonts - Chrome developers explain how they are replacing freetype to a memory safe solution, written in Rust, called Skrifa.

GIMP 3.0 released - Aleksandr Prokudin summarize what's new in the long awaited GIMP 3.0. Don't forget his weekly writeups of Libre Arts updates.